About the course

A High-Impact Health Care Leadership Development Program
Few sectors are evolving as quickly and dramatically as health care. Achieving necessary change in health care requires you to lead and engage stakeholders across your system. It often means influencing people over whom you have no formal authority. You need leadership, conflict resolution, and negotiation skills to build stakeholder buy-in up, down, across, and even beyond your organization. Leading in Health Systems: Integrating Effort, Improving Outcomes develops your leadership skills with a focus on engaging partners enterprise-wide to leverage cross-functional capabilities, stimulate innovative thinking, and improve organizational performance.

In this executive education program you will learn proven, pragmatic frameworks, tools, and techniques developed by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health faculty for bringing together partners with opposing points-of-view, uncovering shared interests, and forging unity of effort. You will build leadership skills to get the right stakeholders to the table, involve them in creating innovative solutions, and create buy-in to make agreements succeed.

Leadership, Conflict Resolution, and Negotiation Skills in Health Care
If you, like many others, are selected for an executive position based on your clinical expertise or individual contributions, you will find leadership to be the missing specialty in your preparation. With the health care system consolidating, merging, integrating, and changing, you need focused leadership training to meet interpersonal, system, and problem-solving challenges you face as a health care leader. This executive education program will help you recognize emerging opportunities and threats, engage diverse stakeholders, allocate scarce resources, make more effective decisions, and shape change in your organization.

By intentionally connecting and leveraging diverse talents and assets, you increase the likelihood of achieving and sustaining positive outcomes. At this continuing education course, you will develop proficiency in meta-leadership and the Walk in the Woods–distinctive frameworks and practice methods for leadership and complex problem solving not found in other executive education programs.

This course will develop your ability to lead effectively in health care now – and in the face of changes to come.

What is Meta-Leadership?
Meta-leadership is a conceptually rigorous and field-tested framework to enable you to foster innovation, anticipate change, and address dynamic, complex, and risk-laden challenges. It helps you close the gap between great idea and great execution. Meta-leadership equips you to effectively lead down to your team, up to your boss, across to your peers, and beyond your organization to other stakeholders.

The meta-leadership framework draws from research in leadership, health care, conflict management, neuroscience, negotiation, and emergency management. It provides an action-oriented tool set that you will be able to deploy right away. The program emphasis is on making you a more effective leader from day one back on the job.

In this seminar, you will learn from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health faculty members who developed the meta-leadership method for building enterprise-wide connectivity of effort; the Walk in the Woods model for complex problem solving and interest-based negotiation; and the swarm intelligence strategy for building collaboration during times of crisis. They together are authors of Renegotiating Health Care: Resolving Conflict to Build Collaboration, Second Edition.

At this program, you will:

Develop your leadership skills for steering your health system adeptly through both prosperity and uncertainty

Build your leadership for times of crisis and change by anticipating decisions and actions, sensibly guiding your team members and supporters

Develop strategies and methods to flexibly lead up, down, across, and beyond your system in differing scenarios

Gain tools of emotional intelligence to discipline yourself and others to best identify priorities and lead effectively, no matter what you rank or position within your organization

Understand your and your team members’ risk profiles to balance and integrate different perspectives

Sharpen your vision and capacity to link, leverage, and forge connectivity of effort, shaping themes and purposes to improve your organization’s position in the ever changing health care marketplace

Who should attend

This program is designed to meet the interpersonal, system, and problem solving challenges now required for career advancement. Participants are leaders and those ready to assume leadership positions from across the health care system, including:

Chief administrative officers

Chief executive officers

Chief medical officers

Chief nursing officer

Clinical department chairs

Clinical division chiefs

Clinical service directors

Deans of academic medical centers

Executive directors

Group practice administrators

Health policy advisors

Health insurance executives

Medical directors

Nurses and nurse leaders

Physicians and physician leaders

Vice presidents

Learning outcomes

Effectively lead and motivate the full range of stakeholders in your health care system

Harvard Longwood Campus

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